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| Anonymous French Maker Embroidery Sample ca. 1770 silk embroidery on silk velvet Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Maker Embroidery Sample ca. 1770 silk embroidery on silk velvet Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Maker Border ca. 1580-1620 linen (needle lace) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Maker Valance ca. 1700 silk embroidery on silk satin Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Maker Trimming 19th century uncut silk velvet on satin ground Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous French Maker Fabric Border ca. 1790-1800 block-printed cotton Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Belgian Maker Border 18th century linen (bobbin lace) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Belgian Maker Cap Streamers ca. 1700-1725 linen (bobbin lace) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Belgian Maker Border with monogram E.P. ca. 1680-1720 linen (binche-style bobbin-lace) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous Belgian Maker Border 20th century linen (point-de-Venise needle lace) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Belgian Maker Border ca. 1870-1920 linen (point-de-gaze needle lace) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous American Maker Infant's Cape 1865 broderie anglaise on cotton piqué National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Swiss Maker Fan Leaf with Alpine Landscape 18th century linen embroidery on linen Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Anonymous British Maker Border 18th century linen (Honiton bobbin lace) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous French Maker Border in Louis XIV style ca. 1680-1700 linen (point-de-France needle lace) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous German Maker Border with Vase-and-Flower Motif ca. 1640-50 linen (needle lace) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Cristóbal Balenciaga Evening Jacket (detail) 1959 embroidered silk tulle Museo Cristóbal Balenciaga, Getaria, Spain |
Hereupon, not thinking it strange if whatsoever is human should befall me, knowing how Providence overcometh grief and discountenances crosses, and that as we should not despair in evils which may happen to us, we should not be too confident nor too much lean to those goods we enjoy, I began to turn over in my remembrance all that could afflict miserable mortality, and to forecast every accident which could beget gloomy and sad apprehensions and with a mask of horror show itself to human eyes. Till in the end (as by unities and points mathematicians are brought to great numbers, and huge greatness) after many fantastical glances of the woes of mankind and those encumbrances which follow upon life, I was brought to think, and with amazement, on the last of human terrors, or, as one termed it, the last of all dreadful and terrible evils – Death. For to easy censure it would appear that the soul, if it can foresee that divorcement which it is to have from the body, should not without great reason be thus overgrieved and plunged in inconsolable and unaccustomed sorrow, considering their near union, long familiarity and love, which are apprehended to be the inseparable attendants of Death.
They had their being together; parts they are of one reasonable creature; the harming of the one is the weakening of the working of the other. What sweet contentment doth the soul enjoy by the senses! They are the gates and windows of its knowledge, the organs of its delight. If it be tedious to an excellent player on the lute to endure but a few months the want of one, how much more must the being without such noble tools and engines be plaintfull to the soul! And if two pilgrims which have wandered some painful few miles together have an heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as are the body and soul!
– William Drummond of Hawthornden, from A Cypress Grove (London: Hawthornden Press, 1919, reprinting the original edition of 1623)